ESports’ inclusion as a medal event at the Hangzhou Asian Games was hailed as a landmark, but out of nearly 500 gamers for what is supposed to be a mixed-sex competition, just eight are women.

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    I feel like this disparity is a cultural thing where women generally don’t play video games as much or as early in life.

    And that the stats are off. Probably they count mobile games as “gaming”. Candycrush isn’t gaming. And honestly, ESports is a euphemism. It isn’t sports.

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      ESports is a euphemism. It isn’t sports

      What qualifies an activity to be classified as sport? Chess is a sport, so physical activity is not a requirement

      Contemporary chess is an organized sport with structured international and national leagues, tournaments, and congresses. Thousands of chess tournaments, matches, and festivals are held around the world every year catering to players of all levels.

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        In that I’m consistent: chess isn’t a sport either. Sure, you feel wrecked after hours of concentration, but if that’s the only criteria, then office jobs would be sport. If it has to be a game, then office politics could be treated as a game with rules and it would still be a sport.

        So no, it has to have physical activity and the physical activity has to be significant enough to tire out muscles. Lifting a beer for a few minutes would be more of a sport than esports, chess or anything else majorly mental. The brain isn’t a muscle.

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          In that I’m consistent: chess isn’t a sport either.

          The thing is chess IS a sport, that’s the fact, like it or not.

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            It’s not a fact. Gravity is fact. Chess being declared a sport by a bunch of old men, is widely accepted opinion.

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                Lol, I state that seeing chess as a sport is relative, and all you read is “he holds the absolute truth”. Quite ironic.

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                  fact: a piece of information presented as having objective reality

                  Chess has tournament, leagues, championships, federation and all that like other sports and is accepted by the society (except for you, it seems) as an sport, so the objective reality is chess is a sport. That’s the reality you live in, like it or not.